Publishing Judge's Skype Talks
SC stays HC bar
The SC yesterday stayed for six weeks an HC order that barred the daily Amar Desh from publishing reports related to Justice Md Nizamul Huq's Skype conversations with an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
Justice Huq resigned from the chairman post of International Crimes Tribunal-1 on December 11 following an Amar Desh report on his Skype conversations with Dr Ahmed Ziauddin.
The SC also stayed the HC order that directed the Dhaka district magistrate to inquire whether the conversation's publication violated the press and publication law.
The SC orders came following a December 24 petition, submitted by Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, seeking the stay. The judge also asked Mahmudur to file a leave to appeal petition with the SC against the HC order within six weeks.
The HC on December 13, following a petition filed by an SC lawyer Azher Ullah Bhuiyan, passed the two orders and issued a rule upon the government to explain why it should not be directed to apprehend and prosecute Mahmudur for the publication.
Azher's lawyer said the HC rule will remain in force as the SC order stayed only the two HC orders while Mahmudur's lawyer said both were stayed.
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